# Your favourite TV/film character? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 16, 2016, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-tv-film-character/760072 "2016-07-16T20:06:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hbk4894](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e68b1a/32.png) [@Hbk4894](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hbk4894)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2016, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-tv-film-character/760072/1 "2016-07-16T20:06:01Z")
Mine Sheldon cooper Denzil Kelly ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2016, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-tv-film-character/760072/2 "2016-07-16T20:18:37Z")
The Doctor ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2016, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-tv-film-character/760072/3 "2016-07-16T23:21:16Z")
Data Niles Crane Adrian Monk ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2016, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-tv-film-character/760072/4 "2016-07-16T23:37:54Z")
Illya Kuryakin was so darn cool! And I had such a crush on Lt. Uhura! (But I wanted to be Scotty when I grew up.) ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2016, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-tv-film-character/760072/5 "2016-07-16T23:56:58Z")
**Daria** ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2016, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-tv-film-character/760072/6 "2016-07-17T00:21:12Z")
Jim Rockford ETA: No, wait, Jim Kirk. Damn. It’s a toss up! ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2016, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-tv-film-character/760072/7 "2016-07-17T02:39:33Z")
George ‘Kingfish’ Stevens ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2016, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-tv-film-character/760072/8 "2016-07-17T04:07:26Z")
Don’t know if I could pick just one, but **Lennie Briscoe** is on the short list. > [@Leaffan](#): > > Jim Rockford > > ETA: No, wait, Jim Kirk. Damn. It’s a toss up! Between those two? Rockford, and it’s not even close. ---
**Author:** ![GESancMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gesancman/32/2923_2.png) [@GESancMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GESancMan)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2016, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-tv-film-character/760072/9 "2016-07-17T04:19:44Z")
Jim Ignatowski Runner up: Yosemite Sam ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2016, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-tv-film-character/760072/10 "2016-07-17T04:44:37Z")
Matt Murdock/Daredevil The Mighty Monarch ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2016, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-tv-film-character/760072/11 "2016-07-18T01:43:05Z")
Hit Girl ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2016, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-tv-film-character/760072/12 "2016-07-18T01:46:10Z")
Jim Rockford ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2016, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-tv-film-character/760072/13 "2016-07-18T01:49:57Z")
Rob Petrie #6 Mike Nesmith ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2016, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-tv-film-character/760072/14 "2016-07-18T02:37:43Z")
Spock ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2016, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-tv-film-character/760072/15 "2016-07-18T03:02:48Z")
Phillip J. Fry Hubert Farnsworth ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2016, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-tv-film-character/760072/16 "2016-07-18T03:55:57Z")
Al Swearengen ---
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2016, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-tv-film-character/760072/17 "2016-07-18T04:03:28Z")
Captain Augustus “ **Gus** ” McCrae as played by **Robert Duvall** in **Lonesome Dove** (1989). [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBS3FaNuuLo) So does he think _Lonesome Dove_ is the project — and Gus McCrae, the role — for which he’ll always be best known? “It depends,” Duvall said. “I can be walking down the street here in Los Angeles and some kid can be walking by with a boombox, and he’ll call out, ‘Hey, man! I saw you in _Colors_!’ And then in certain parts of North Carolina, I run into all these kids who fix their cars and all they want to talk about is _Days of Thunder_. “But just about wherever else I go, everyone wants to talk about _Lonesome Dove_. Everybody wants to talk about Gus McCrae, **my favorite part**.” > **[Robert Duvall Remembers – C&I Magazine](https://www.cowboysindians.com/2014/01/robert-duvall-remembers/)** > > The role Robert Duvall made iconic almost didn’t go to him — and other revelations about Lonesome Dove. It doesn’t get any better than Lonesome Dove. I don’t even particularly like westerns. I’m more of a science fiction fan but I couldn’t put that novel down and as long as it was, I didn’t want it to end. And then the miniseries completely blew me away. ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Shine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr_shine/32/464_2.png) [@Mr\_Shine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Shine)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2016, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-tv-film-character/760072/18 "2016-07-18T07:51:03Z")
Ron Swanson Sir Humphrey Appleby Basil Fawlty Saga Noren ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2016, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-tv-film-character/760072/19 "2016-07-18T13:15:49Z")
Leslie Knope Special Agent Dale Cooper ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2016, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-tv-film-character/760072/20 "2016-07-18T13:31:57Z")
Richard Kimble. For the lifestyle. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-tv-film-character/760072.md?page=2)